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oBdA

Member Since: 2003/01/28

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Powershell Active Directory Windows Batch

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Points this month113,850

Total points23,832,733

Questions: 1

Solutions: 13373

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Group Discussions: 28

Full Biography

I've been asked repeatedly whether I'd be available for paid gigs: nope, sorry. I'm helping here strictly for fun.
If you feel I've helped you immensely and now got that certain itching urge to reciprocate, then by all means, don't hold back, and consider supporting one of these in return (sorted strictly alphabetically, no preference implied):
ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/donate-aclu
EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate or https://www.eff.org/helpout
NPR: https://www.npr.org/support/

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Level Progress

Current: Level 109

oBdA needs 367,267 points to level up.

LVL 110

What do levels mean?

Overall

109

23,832,733
Powershell

70

9,944,987
Windows Server 2003

52

5,547,143
Active Directory

46

4,259,985
Scripting Languages

38

2,897,387
Windows Batch

35

2,468,708
Windows OS

34

2,347,828
Microsoft Server OS

28

1,568,777
Windows 2000

24

1,238,252
Microsoft DOS

24

1,195,207
Windows Networking

24

1,164,661
VB Script

21

942,389
Windows Server 2008

21

939,495
Microsoft Legacy OS

20

861,754
Windows 10

18

665,532
Windows XP

17

636,729
Exchange

17

592,814
Operating Systems

16

548,818
Azure

16

543,643
OS Security

15

488,647
Shell Scripting

14

434,868
Windows Server 2016

14

409,725
Microsoft 365

14

398,395
Networking

13

379,743
Windows Server 2012

13

372,916
Windows 7

13

348,965
Programming

13

346,497
SBS

12

314,337
DNS

12

306,249
Citrix

11

266,552
Storage Software

11

249,974
Security

10

223,108
Microsoft SQL Server

9

162,409
Regular Expressions

9

162,175
Microsoft Office

8

150,323
Server Hardware

8

130,556
.NET Programming

7

127,168
Installation

7

123,250
SQL

7

119,825
Software

7

118,716
IT Administration

7

110,441
VMware

7

105,009
Microsoft Applications

7

104,742
XML

7

100,750
Microsoft Excel

7

98,723
HTML

6

91,125
Programming Languages-Other

6

90,900
Storage

6

87,893
Internet Protocols

6

85,547
Microsoft Server Apps

6

81,930
Microsoft Development

6

81,914
Server Software

6

74,550
DHCP

6

74,049
Visual Basic Classic

5

65,355
VBA

5

63,698
Virtualization

5

62,525
Windows Vista

5

52,875
Databases

5

52,668
Microsoft IIS Web Server

5

51,867
Microsoft SQL Server 2005

5

51,775
System Utilities

5

51,455
Fonts Typography

4

47,158
Microsoft

4

45,550
Windows Server 2019

4

43,900
PC

4

42,650
JSON

4

40,500
Printers and Scanners

4

40,466
TCP/IP

4

40,130
Network Management

4

40,005
Project Management

4

39,550
Miscellaneous

4

38,307
Group Policy

4

37,900
Outlook

4

36,682
Microsoft Forefront ISA Server

4

36,250
Microsoft Virtual Server

4

35,700
C#

4

33,275
Remote Access

4

32,943
Microsoft Access

4

32,900
FTP

4

32,850
SCCM

4

32,045
Desktops

3

31,000
Microsoft SQL Server 2008

3

28,900
Storage Hardware

3

27,600
Hyper-V

3

27,350
Microsoft 365 Enterprise

3

26,750
Visual Basic.NET

3

26,189
System Programming

3

25,858
Networking Hardware-Other

3

25,150
Web Browsers

3

24,450
File Sharing Software

3

24,100
Encryption

3

22,845
Golang

3

21,600
Oracle Database

3

21,500
Anti-Virus Apps

3

21,200
Linux

3

20,750
Microsoft Visual Studio

3

19,000
Components

3

18,750
Network Architecture

2

17,300
JavaScript

2

17,150
Disaster Recovery

2

17,100
Microsoft Word

2

16,400
Software Firewalls

2

15,320
Domain Controller

2

15,300
Troubleshooting

2

15,000
AutoHotkey

2

14,600
Wireless Networking

2

14,100
Networking Protocols

2

13,772
Microsoft SharePoint

2

13,650
PDF

2

13,475
Web Languages and Standards

2

13,394
Network Operations

2

13,332
Web Development

2

12,800
Windows 11

2

12,350
Web Servers

2

11,380
Mac OS X

2

11,250
SSIS

2

11,150
AWS

2

10,950
SSRS

2

10,750
VPN

2

10,700
Python

2

10,410
Windows 8

2

10,200
PHP

2

10,050
Hardware

2

10,034
Acronis

2

10,000
OneDrive

2

9,950
Images and Photos

2

9,779
CSS

2

9,450
Microsoft Lync Server

2

9,350
ASP.NET

2

9,310
JScript

2

9,150
Unix OS

2

8,900
Routers

2

8,850
Email Protocols

2

8,650
Internet Explorer (IE)

2

8,350
REST

2

8,150
Network Analysis

1

7,772
Laptops Notebooks

1

7,650
WSUS

1

7,150
HTTP Protocol

1

7,100
Cisco

1

7,000
SSL / HTTPS

1

6,900
MySQL Server

1

6,750
Java

1

6,675
Network Security

1

6,672
Dell

1

6,172
Email Clients

1

5,550
Assembly

1

5,400
C++

1

5,350
Perl

1

5,324
Application Servers

1

5,250
Editors IDEs

1

5,125
Internet Explorer (IE)

1

5,000
Linux Distributions

1

4,800
Delphi

1

4,668
COBOL

1

4,100
Veeam

1

4,100
DevOps

1

4,050
ASP

1

4,000
Algorithms

1

4,000
Apple OS

1

4,000
R

1

4,000
Firefox

1

3,800
MongoDB

1

3,600
NoSQL Databases

1

3,600
Anti-Spyware

1

3,400
Adobe Acrobat

1

3,200
PostgreSQL

1

3,200
Productivity Apps

1

3,175
Consulting

1

3,150
Node.js

1

3,100
Quality Assurance

1

3,100
Spreadsheets

1

3,100
Document Imaging

1

3,060
BlackBerry

1

3,000
Document Management

1

3,000
Email Servers

1

3,000
MultiMedia Applications

1

2,800
SSH / Telnet Software

1

2,800
Microsoft PowerPoint

1

2,750
Peripherals

1

2,750
SSAS

1

2,550
.NET App Servers

1

2,500
Paessler

1

2,475
Facebook

1

2,350
Sophos

1

2,200
Big Data

1

2,000
BlackBerry Programming

1

2,000
DB Dev Tools

1

2,000
DB2

1

2,000
E-Commerce

1

2,000
Hardware Firewalls

1

2,000
Illustration Software

1

2,000
Internet / Email Software

1

2,000
Java App Servers

1

2,000
Microsoft Visio

1

2,000
Novell Netware

1

2,000
Photos / Graphics Software

1

2,000
Statistical Packages

1

2,000
Sybase Database

1

2,000
Web Applications

1

2,000
iPhone

1

2,000
vSphere

1

2,000